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Homeseeker's Column
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The Meridional Las all along
conteded that Vermilion Parish
was the only and real campania
of the Great American Republic.
the Meridional now proposes t o
make good that assertion. it
has the goods to deliver, again it
realizes that an assertion with
out proof is of no value, even far
worse than no assertion. In
making good our contentions,
we propose to give facts, facts
that we invite your investigati
on of, facts that a letter of in
quiry from you, will willingly
receive corroboration from the
parties theinslves. In truth, we
would be pleased to receive in
quirie0 of any nature in regard
to this section. The facts thiat
we propose to bear out our state
ments with, are only a few of
the many, that would our space
permit, we would gladly' publish.
What has been done by these in
dividuals, is sufficient proof that
it can be done by others.
Ihere yet remains plenty of
land with ample water supply
for the good honest and indus
trious farmer.
Let it be clearly understood,
that the Idea's invitation
to the homeseeker, is ALONE to
that man who has the combined
qL ities of the above paragraph,
(her with a good moral char
acter. To that man, it says
.me, it invites him, it extends
tý him the glad hand of good fel
owship, in behalf of the good
people of Vermilion, it will
share with him the rich blessings
of this section that none other,
can bestow.
For further particulars in re
gard to the purchase or rental
of lands, we refer you to out
realestate men, whose ads ap
pear in this issue, or the follow
ang irrigation companies. What
any of these people tell you, cat
be relied on: Abbeville Canal
4 s.; Irwing Irrigation Co.; Ab
A-ville, La.; Vermilion Devel
pmPwat Co., L. & . /banal Co.
Oneydan, La.
A `thrifty farmer bought one
' of .Imported Honduras sec d
iee,'for which he paid elevei
6lals. With this bag, h,
'planted four acres. This foul
qs :yielded 841 bags, or near
ly one hundred barrels of extr
f~'Sy head rice; which at the
itarket price would bring about
~.00,, or if sold for seed .ai
Snice pai& for first barrel, the
planterwould have realized o0.
his 814 bags $1,100.
The.First National
Bank of tifs city cash
ed a check for Elia.
Brousard for $1,175
beItig the proceeds of
O6. bags of rice taker
from 18 acres.
J. P. Carr produced
on 28o acres 3,30o
bags of rice. At the
price of rice to-day,
this crop would briing
;ot less than elever
thousand and five
Fundred dollars.
For further information in re
&d to the two above notices
, or write the.First National
;lnk of this city.
J J. II. Lutgring & Co.
ld a party one-hall
ction of rice ianc
mart Gueydan t w
years ago. The lan(
-uas put in rice. After
the deduction of pur
ase prihe of lan(,
Improvei ents, a it
expcn14't IeakfIIg Ith
the ywo 1'r l, l oave.
l' t lli'r'ltlost' r 10I1.
tof r.e lasi
* "s e.t teelease
pm ab Mo I
McPherson & Gol
den bought five years
_ago a tract 47 acres of
land for $540. Land
has since rented for
$100 a year. Four
crops of rice includ
ing this year has been
made. Four crops
brought $4.000. This
year the 47 acres pro
duced 430 bags rice
which brought $3.900
per barrel or a total
of :°1,600.
llS THANIKSGIVING.
Vermilion, the Cam
pania of the universe,
offers the industrious
farmer a greater re
tun for for the least
work of any country
on the globe- It was
just a few miles west
of this thriving little
city, that a farmer
bought 80 acres of
virgin rice land in
the early spring of
this year on time at
TWENTY dollars per
acre with 8 per cent
nterest. This tract
he planted in rice;
The crop harvested
and sold, the expen
ses of making the
crop, other minor ex
penses, the purchase
price of the laud, the
passage of sale, 't o
gether with the inter
est deducted from the
gross- proceeds of the
crop, leaves the pur
chasbr a net cash bal
ance in the First
National Bank of Ab
beville $1,500..
[For for fuller particulars in
regard to the above statement,
we respectfully refer you to Mr.
D. L. McPherson of this city.1
CEssa Broussard, a few miles
South of Gueydan, has cold over
over eight thousand dollars
wortn of rice. rrom 105 acres of
marsh land. Mr. Broussard has
yet 250 bags of rice. obtained
from this tract unsold. If these
250 bags bring five dollars per
barrel, as did that portion sold,
Mr. Broussard will have obtained
is gross proceesoff the 105 acers
of rice for this year, the sum of
f9,250.00.
[For futher information in re
gard to the above, write Guey
dan & Babl it, Gueydan. La.]
The Frst National Bank of this
city cashed on last week a check
for $1,053.00 as the proceeds of
212 bags of rice, being nearly five
dollars per bag. These 212 bags
were produced on about 20
acres of land.
Professional Cards.
R. P. NELSON, 0. 0. S.,
ABBaVrLL". LA.
rown and Bridge Work a specialty.
Iil work guaranteed. Olice in private
residence.
f. B. WHiTE,
rTTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
At .aw and Notary Public.
ABEVJILLE, LA.
)S. I. A. B IfDGZ,
'HthSI('IAN AND SsURGEON
3p.eial A t.,Ufs to D wae of E7..
&ASrSi-LLR LW IM A. i
OL
I.Barrr 05'"; i
,·I
THE
VERMILION
CAMPANIA
"Jr
S JUST AS THE OLD ROHAN CAMPANIA WAS
the most level, the most fertile, the most productive and the
i est beautiful portion of all Italy, so our lovely Paroisse
:'Vermilion New Orleans-as our Rome and Abbeville
ouir Na e!, aires to surpass in fertility and productiveness,
.tibei, ituflural scenery and mildness of climate, in its
aibundant rces, tendered from the fullness of mother
nature's b t , even the play ground of the sons of Mars.
AS ft-WAS THE*PRIVILEGE OF TUE WARRIOR
the stateam , the poet, the historian, Caesar and Pompey,
Cicero and ktaline, Virgil and Horace, Tacitus and Livey, _
to have ouutry homes, and often repair to their villas in the
Campania, so does our charming Vermilion entice the
millionaire, the professional man, the banker and the
statesman to invest his money in our rolling prairies and
broad meadow lands and linger to watch his dollars increase
and multiply and grow through the waving rice, the ripening
cane and the snowy cotton, into double and treble the
aniounat . first invested.
AND AS THE CAMPANIA FUtlNISHED BU3STE
niance t the poor, the masses of Italy, so the Vermilion
Canmp;, furnishes sustenance to the thousands of the
**banieJd from Acadia," the descendants of the family of
the fair;vangeline. who gave up the search for her Gabriel
only whet she reached this *'the land of promise." . And
This sustenance is cheerfully yielded by the smiling soil to
her favorite and favored children with a tithe of the labor
which she requires at the hands of bey less favoured sons of
th#N h 1pd West.
NO DER,EVEN HER SAVAGE CHILDREN,
" the pprce ttakapas, clung to this their chosen abode, and
rield , rnly to the invasion of the superior race.
Sw sVbet we reserve to last, namely; that there is still
n:mioni unr broad acres for many a homestead and susten
'iree 16?thousands of smiling elders with their merry and
rlaghi obildren.
DO YOU WANT A BOMB IiN THIJ LAND OF
..i ra.ise, this the Vermilion Campania, whose capit .l, the
ti~imving city of Abbeville may well deserve the name of the
#9 Vernion "Oiy of the Violet Crown"?
- her idional.
I ~ie*
You Have the Chance to Buy the Adam Boudreau Farm
This farm is admhsrably situated on the bayou Vernalliop anpl the AbbevlUe
canal, consists of 200 arpents of the finest land In the par is, lo a tla I
miles fromn Abbeville, with an elegant reelsene, 8 tenant bees, g lbn
and ian all rouxl model tir. This Ipesty am be begM hr ht t en Sa
days at $*0 an ar t. quy Term,. If yto want iL, ke
D.*b fl CL INB CO.
l. -a,.... . 5 h S"- * . * a
S, F._PIUSLEY,
VETERINARY SURG
EoplI&l st EwlI'sestaid,
its I. 5OIOTAGlIqI
Contractor and Builde,
Planme and Estimates Ch
Purnished.
AbUVxv L - g- Lo
IAIPIUL J. BADUVEB,
ATTOR EY-Ai'-LA1Vp
NOTA lV PUBLIC
Room 14 Bank Building, -
ABaB vUJLU - Ia
LastIe Brousird. J. B.
W. W. Dailey.
SBIOSSAID, LITCIIeLL AND BAILEr,ý
AVJI'f}NEYýs AT
Aaaivuaa,
GAce uear the CourtIhouee.
SEstablished in 184 3.
W. B. THOMPSON. P. C.
W. B. THOMWPSON & CO
Cotton -:- Fact.
-,a)--
COI Mt4IlON MERlCU tN
No. 808 Perdido Street,
New Orleaas
J10 IUGIEU, JR,
:ATTORNEY-AT-LAw,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
V.f J. Q1IICK
GErNERAL CONTUaClTO
PI nglandestiimateg nsjrnished onapy
ABBsvILLE LOU[
W. B. WHITE,
Abbeville,1a.,
Attorney at Law and Notary ru
so YEAL1
EXPERIE
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Tn~tog
C-me
Anyone edng ethld aa
9.utck y ewtalii nor frt
Invention IS probbJ7
UoaaatrtotlY
en taoatroe Oldest I
Paten·ts~t takew ýo & n !
SciM entice, wfiopt dý l t1
A lmuIIdqtm.4 Ulmwbsti wsMlIX Jatee
to= bran;lbrhrs
When life's autumn comes w
out by. the burdens of
shrink from that seicond"chane
whieh will banish these burdens
They fear a change in form, f
fears re
effectew
hange do
women.
Thosaw
s due toS
from the
of life e11he
S omen.T
timate con
* of the goaet
health with
health ofAhe organs peculiarly elu
By preservng the health of these'
qar and reliOeving the system from d
Lions wh it. -a'i . r ealt .
resri Sltw" paves the ira
natu.l chango to come in Natures
without the toes of capa ty i p
,thers orpersonal Inab.!lty toe
"Your 'Faorite Proer, bar -
safely tbroupsi that cudiiltp
change of I.f' " writes MrsM
excitedl t ahirtha rv seei, t _
My apeti Was tu for d
mended me
tna. ed me t.avorlte
ecruptiwn It 554e a at chanse for
better two wk' the e
teeltmir a rsIaappesrgd I have a hi
and elgbt children so have the care of a I
family but as able to attend to my
.boldduties without any dtfflculty and
the pDeriodwithout.ty more trouble. I
raeommendSoar ' evol Prscritlio
stgrand medicine foy women.'
You may be willing that somebody
shall say that their baby is"Just as
s yours, but you don't want that
fi$ t 1. for ,yours, Let dealers
fat't" L'lk-..S t er me ta
Subst s y 'o don't
Mt lpu~ "uie uI!Qusle4
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